USC had good success running the ball versus Minnesota netting 216 yards on 38 carries in their most recent victory. Marc Tyler started the season as the feature back and apparently is holding onto that leading role going into next week versus Washington State. Senior tailback Allen Bradford did most of the damage versus Minnesota [...]

As expected in week 3 Minnesota took a cue from previous teams to beat USC and tried to run right at the Trojan defense. Last week as noted Virginia had considerable success running various power plays in their loss to USC. The strategy worked reasonably well for keeping them in the game. Last season Stanford [...]

USC did not impress much in its home opener versus the University of Virginia. The offense struggled most of the evening and the defense played well only in spurts. I suspect that with a new coach in Mike London at Virginia it was difficult to prepare for the style of offense and defense that the [...]

In the recent game versus Hawaii the USC rushing attack got off to a nice start totaling 246 yards on 35 rush attempts for a healthy 7.0 yard average. Most of the damage was done from one back sets on inside zone plays weak, and a few outside zone plays run to the strong side. [...]